Rihanna is so rich and powerful. And yet I hear she still hangs out with her abuser, Chris Brown. Doesn’t she have the resources to do better? —S. Lavina

Rihanna may be many things: Wealthy, beautiful, surrounded by handlers. But experts tell me that even that kind of privilege and a whole mess of yes-people can have no bearing on what may or may not be a continuing rapport with her convicted abuser.